Attachment for adjusting guide-cords for mangles.



J. SOROKIN.

ATTACHMENT FOR ADJUSTING GUIDE CORDS FOR MANGLES.

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UNTTE JOSEPH SOROKIN, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT FOR ADJUSTING GUIDE-CORDS FOR MANGLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

Application filed May 25, 1914. Serial No. 840,722.

To all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SoRoKIN, a citizen of the United States,residing in Des Moines, county of Folk, and State of Iowa, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Adjusting Guide- Cordsfor Mangles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mangles in which guide cords are used todirect the course of the clothes through the pressing rolls, and it hasfor its object to produce means, operating independently of each cordand yet combined as an attachment adapted to be secured to any mangle,to continually keep a tight tension on the cords, said means operatingautomatically, thus avoiding the delay and annoyance incident to theadjusting of the tension of one or more of the cords.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination,of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated areattained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claimsand illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I shows afront elevation view of the upper part of a mangle my attachment beingsecured thereto; and Fig. II shows a sectional view, on an enlargeddetail, of a part of my device.

Referring to the accompanying drawings the reference numerals 10 areused to indicate the rollers of a mangle and 11 the guide cords.

My attachment consists of a supporting member 12, provided with aplurality of non-circular vertical openings therethrough, an openingoccurring in the vertical line of each guide cord, said member beingsecured longitudinally between the sides of the mangle. In each of saidopenings is movably secured a shaft 18, provided with a shoulder 14,near its upper extremity, a coil spring 15 being mounted on said shaftits ends engaging the supporting member 12 and the shoulder 14, asshown. The shaft extends through the supporting member and is providedwith a lug, or cotter pin, 16, or the like, to limit the upward movementof the shaft in its opening. On the upper extremity of the shaft isrotatably secured a grooved wheel 17, the bearing for the shaft beinghorizontal, as shown.

The guide cords pass over their respective grooved wheels and, whenadjusted, the tension of the cord is such as to compress the spring 15.As the cord stretches, as obviously the work will cause it to do, thespring 15 forces the grooved wheel upward, thus keeping a uniformtension on the cord.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States is:

1. A cord adjuster for mangles comprising a supporting member providedwith a plurality of non-circular openings extending therethrough; ashaft in each opening the upper extremity of said shaft being turned toform a bearing for a. grooved wheel rotatably mounted thereon; a coilspring on said shaft, and means to retain said shaft, substantially asshown and described.

2. In a cord adjuster for mangles, a support having an opening therein,a bar slidable vertically in said opening, said bar having its upper endportion extending laterally to form a shoulder and thence extendingvertically and again laterally to form a journal, a wheel on thejournal, and a coil spring surrounding the bar and engaged at its endswith said shoulder and with said support.

3. In a cord adjuster for mangles, a hollow support having an openingtherein and extending through opposite sides of the support to providebearings at said sides which bearings are separated by the spaceinteriorly of the support, a shouldered bar slidable in the opening andengaged with each of said bearings, cord engaging means on the bar, anda spring surrounding the bar and engaged with the shoulder of the barand with the support.

JOSEPH SOROKIN.

Witnesses:

ZELL G. Ron, FRANK STEINER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

